• “Clu is ageless, and looks like a rubber-faced Madame Tussaud replica of the 1982 Bridges“—Salon

• “His father is still alive, though a virtual prisoner in a matrix run by his evil twin Clu, an insidious program played by a digitally re-created 1980s Jeff Bridges who looks like a product of Madame Tussauds CGI Museum.” —New York Post

• “Mr. Bridges mostly amuses by throwing a little Lebowski into his performance as the older Kevin, which partly makes up for the creepiness of his computer-enhanced turn as both the younger Kevin and the rebellious program Clu. This youthful version was achieved by digitally translating the actor’s facial movements into data for a simulacrum that here looks like an animated death mask.” —New York Times

• “In his rubbery Botox-android way, [Clu’s] creepy to look at (and he makes you wonder if this will be the future for aging movie stars), but there isn’t much to Clu besides his telegenic blank stare.” —EW

• “He looks just like young Bridges if young Bridges had had way too much plastic surgery, so it’s hard to take him seriously. Clu seems more like an unfortunate Botox victim than a dastardly despot.” —Time

• “Regarding Bridges’ digital de-aging: It’s creepy. It’s a little less creepy on Clu’s face (he’s not human, anyway) than on Kevin’s in a scene from 1989, but on either of them it has the waxen look of storefront mannequins - or over-Botoxed socialites.” —Houston Chronicle

• “Clu, a major reboot from the Tron original, is made from Photoshopping the recreated face of a 30-something Bridges onto the body of a younger actor. The effect is simultaneously creepy and awe-inspiring and the same can be said of the look of the picture.” —Toronto Star